Ep50: Scribe of Carlos Castaneda - Nyei Murez

In this interview I am joined by Nyei Murez, personal student and scribe of best-selling author and nagual sorcerer Carlos Castaneda.
We discuss who Castaneda was, and Nyei gives a detailed history of his lineage up to the present day.
We find out how Nyei first met Castaneda, and explore her intensive course of study and training under his personal guidance.
We learn about Castaneda’s writing process, including stories of Nyei’s close collaboration with him on several best selling books.
Nyei also talks on the nature of power, and shares insights into the current geo-political situation.
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www.guruviking.com/ep50-nyei-...
Audio version of this podcast also available on iTunes and Stitcher - search ‘Guru Viking Podcast’.
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Topics include:
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Meeting Carlos Castaneda and Florinda Donner
20:21 - The history of the lineage
49:38 - Nyei’s training with Carlos Castaneda and Florinda Donner
57:46 - Why did Nyei call Nyei a ‘genius’ + change in teaching style
1:01:54 - Time as a chacmool or ‘fierce guardian’
1:05:30 - The purpose behind Nyei’s training
1:13:52 - Castaneda’s writing process and Nyei’s time as his scribe
1:24:15 - Scanning people energetically
1:33:31 - More on writing with Castaneda
1:48:08 - The death of Carlos Castaneda
1:59:25 - Castaneda’s widespread influence in today’s culture
2:1428 - Insights on the nature of power
2:22:38 - Nyei on the pandemic and immunity
2:30:31 - Nyei’s current work
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Check out my 2nd interview with Nyei:
- www.guruviking.com/ep54-nyei-...
To find out more about Nyei Murez, visit:
- www.creationinflow.com
For more interviews, videos, and more visit:
- www.guruviking.com
Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James

[@pchabanowich]

This is the first time I've heard any of the work that Carlos did (other than writing the books), and this has been beautiful - a treasure. Thank you both.✌

[@marilynwarbis7224]

As a don Juan fan, also fan of Carlos Castaneda, I find this video fascinating. Thank you!

[@crazypath573]

We know why she is so vague and spacey in her speech. She is withholding so much vital information about the tailspin and catastrophe that marked the end of Carlos and his female cohorts.

[@drmodestoesq]

Exactly. She is what a prosecuting attorney would say is a hostile witness.

[@xlomen]

I was a Tensegrity practitioner. It was life changing in ways that are not always apparent till later. Very powerful and unique techniques that are extremely challenging.

[@Dwoodman596]

How was it life changing and how did you attribute those events to Tensegrity rather than something else?

[@dontmindmejustwatching]

I mean during those workshops we were recapitulating(reassesing) our life experience with help tensegrity and magical passes. It would change our patterns(habits) how we go through life. Old ways were let go, new ways would be adopted. You accumulate those changes and life itself changes, reshapes. @@Dwoodman596

[@decimatedbody4122]

@@Dwoodman596 Go to the castenada subreddit and search up threads like "dark room" and "inner silence" they show you full detailed maps about the j curve and how to manage real magic. Don't brush something off because mainstream tells you. Judge a book once you finish reading it. truth is stranger than fiction. Castenada was a enigma , don juan teachings are real.

[@dennismason3740]

There are moments that stick with you for a lifetime. You wouldn't believe my experiences any more than you believe that Carlos was an impeccable journalist and gave a true gift of knowledge to the world. Early in his apprenticeship Don Juan tied Carlos to a support structure on a rear patio of a suburban house and Carlos freaked and tore through the leather rope and was sent flailing into the room with Don Juan and his cohorts. While Juan was explaining their maneuver to the freaked out angry Carlos he used the term "intent" and Vicente Madrano, the herbalist seer, screamed "intent!", over and over. I have, since the 80s, found myself immersed in an impossible situation where I screamed INTENT to propel myself into a solution. Not around people, they don't respond well to a crazy toothless man screaming INTENT over and over. Thank you, Vicente.

[@steffenkarl7967]

She seems humble,perceptive and able to laugh at herself almost able to hide her power Thank you felt it to be a delight

[@gregglockhart9551]

I really appreciate this interview.Nyei doesn’t seem to know the material as the books presented them. Or rather she’s leaving out salient points. The death defier knew that the sexton was a Nagual,and he threatened to expose him to the Catholic authorities if he were to not go along with the death defier’s requests. The death defier had started out as a man. Through the development of his awareness he found himself as a prisoner in the world of the inorganic beings. It was there that he somehow managed to figure out that he could flip his assemblage point or turn it inside out. In doing so his body changed from male to female. The inorganic beings were only interested in capturing male awareness,as it had some sort of quality that they found to be useful to them in some way. Having a female body,he was able to fool them and escape their world. The death defier figured out that he could use the energy of a Nagual to revitalize his life’s essence. The death defier was an ancient seer that knew many maneuvers of the assemblage point that the new seers were not aware of. In exchange for the energy that he received from each Nagual of Don Juan’s lineage he would teach his benefactor novel ways to manipulate their assemblage point. He taught Don Juan’s teacher,the Nagual Julian, how to turn his assemblage point inside out. Their meeting with the death defier was profound and changed the direction of their purpose. They went from being sorcerers to being The New Seers of Total Freedom. The year was 1723. Later it was stated that to escape the pursuit of the inorganic beings,the death defier managed to merge his awareness with Carlos and Carol Tiggs.

[@IAmWithinEverything]

This was a first for me hearing about their lives . Thank you ❤

[@billywhite1362]

In 1976, Richard DeMille, son of director Cecil B. DeMille, published Castaneda's Journey, a point-by-point repudiation of Castaneda's tale of don Juan. He noted that Castaneda kept no field notes, incorrectly used Native terms, inaccurately described Native practices and everything he claimed to have uncovered was already known to anthropologists and researchers. For those who found meaning in Castaneda's work, these pointed critiques didn't matter. UCLA also stayed silent on the matter, although the university had promoted and published the work.

[@Huxtee7]

1 mans word does not invalidate the whole of Castenadas work and the 1,000 of ppl it has helped.

[@DanielJackson2010]

the sense of certainty that mostly mediocre people feel and are full of and that protects them is a feature of the first attention. Warriors pay with this certainty to break through into the second attention. Living in the first attention is so expensive! you pay with the value of your life and all you receive is the temporary relief from the stresses of the seeing and encounters of the real life.

[@Dwoodman596]

Would you call that indulging in self-importance? Is it bad just because its an energy drain or something worse?

[@devonseamoor]

I believe that the 1st attention was perceived, by this commenter, as limited, for being merged with the visible world through sensual perception. While the 2nd attention includes the 1st plus the inner world processes with a connection to the spiritual world as well. The latter clarifies the relativity of the sensual perception of all that belongs and shows up as merely material of nature. See what I mean? 👋🧙‍♀️

[@peteraddison4371]

... hmm, possibly ESP, awe, EXTRA SENSUAL PERCEPTION. With just 12 little boox One can Intuitively hold with the relivence of a flowing allignment he meticulously crafted and delivered 🎉 C.C. most assuredly deserved his doctorate, aura Nobel ...

[@bearally]

Thankin You ...been w/Carlos since 1986 this makes my mind n heart so so happy again thank you

[@pazpazon1]

Deeply grateful for this, thank you.

[@dennismason3740]

I rode to a Tensegrity workshop (2001) on Vine near Beverly and I was confused and scared when I entered the studio and saw about 88 folk in Danskins ($) who apparently knew every magical pass ever discovered by the ancient shamans. It was amazing, if humorless. The dude next to me literally had no hands and he knew every pass being performed.

[@dennismason3740]

9 months ago a met a magical deer at the Hollywood Reservoir and I just happened to have my old Polaroid camera so I asked the deer if it was o.k. to take a picture and she nodded yes and I took the picture, with her filling the frame. I put the photo in my pocket and forgot about it. Later that night I pulled the photo out - there were the trees, the sky, the lake and the fence and where the doe was just..a shadow, an amorphous blob of dark grey/brownness where the deer was. Don't get me started on the coyotes.

[@cheshirecat5571]

I think that it is far easier for intelligent, educated people to fall for a guru con, than it is for someone of average intelligence. Intelligent people live more inside their thoughts and are more vulnerable to getting lost in abstract ideas and concepts that have little to no basis in reality. A skilled and gifted con man like Castaneda, could size up a person and charm them in quick succession. Then he would determine if there was something from this person that he could use to his benefit. Ms. Nyei obviously had lots of skills Carlos could use. Anyone who thinks Carlos Castaneda was anything other than a gifted fiction writer and charismatic cult leader should read Amy Wallace's book, Sorcerer's Apprentice.

[@drmodestoesq]

Yep....Orwell's observation that some ideas are so ridiculous that only an intellectual would believe them.

[@chrisstanley2538]

This stuff changed n ot only my world, yah.Had Read his first 2-3 books in 78' applieing things immediately and since then. This is our now, wow it's ok, next, will blow your minds. Thanks everybody 😊

[@jomansson5742]

The concept of, and embracing the challenge of a "petty tyrant" was life changing for me, and I haven't seen it anywhere else.

[@robertschrachta6102]

It always is captivating and moving to hear Nyei Murez! Thanks so much! I hope she keeps producing and sharing!

[@shahin6671]

Priceless, precious interview. Thank you so much for doing this. For giving her space to really speak.

[@rashomonseres]

I didn't read your post previously, but Priceless also came to mind as I posted. ( a tip of the hat to you. )

[@anotheryou218]

The old sorcerers before the conquest were doing what shamans and "witch doctors" all over the globe had done, i.e. they were courting power, seeking to acquire power, through mastery of the mind or mental manipulation. They didn't realize until it was too late that their relentless pursuit of power and especially the wielding of mental power over others had to rebound back on them at some point. It was karma, plain and simple. IMO. Don Juan, I believe, had the vision and some useful methods to see beyond the power game and pursue the true magic of life which we can participate in and witness but which can't be used by anyone.

[@blo7332]

Spoken like a student of freedom.

[@JPVillalobos27]

Medicine men are very different from shamans.

[@Boudica234]

It's important to remember that when Castaneda (quoting Don Juan) referred to the "old sorcerers," he was referring to an alleged cycle of ancient sorcerers who were the ones consumed with self importance, power and the desire to dominate their fellow men. According to Don Juan the old sorcerers were decimated by other Indian tribes ages before the Spanish conquest. Don Juan claimed that the old sorcerers reigned from 7,000 to 3,000 years ago (ie. approx. 5,000 B.C. to 1,000 B.C.) Don Juan claimed that the few remaining sorcerers conducted a thorough re-examination of what went wrong with the paradigm of the old sorcerers. According to Don Juan, this transition resulted in what he referred to as a "new cycle." Men he referred to as the new seers revamped sorcery as it had been practiced for millenia and emphasized the quest for perceptual freedom as opposed to the manipulation and control exercised in the second attention. According to Don Juan, the new seers emphasized the quest to defeat self importance as a critical aspect to the new cycle. Also according to Don Juan, it was the new seers who developed "stalking" (in the first attention of the everyday world) as a core principle of the new teaching. Don Juan stated that by the time the Spanish conquerors arrived, the new seers were well equipped via stalking to deal with the "simple minded Spaniards" and found them to be extraordinary petty tyrants upon whom the new sorcerers could perfect their stalking. Finally, due to the immense bloodshed and pressure exerted by the Spanish conquerors, Don Juan claimed that the individual lineages of sorcerers separated at that time in order to best survive the ordeal. It was during this time that Don Juan claimed his lineage began.

[@anotheryou218]

It sounds to me as if the "new cycle" of sorcerers simpply went on another detour, this time practicing mental manipulation on themselves and thinking they had somehow become invulnerable to things like conquistadores. What a shock it must have been to find themselves once again on the brink of extinction. The mental "virtual reality" technology they had so painstakingly perfected over centuries did not save them, and their entire civilization was destroyed. @@Boudica234

[@Dwoodman596]

@@Boudica234 This unwritten history is so so fascinating. Seeing as how you seem to know you stuff, would you say that this work can be done with dreaming alone? No tensegrity, no dark room gazing. I dont know why but that stuff is of absolutely zero interest to me. Any thoughts?

[@tensegridadcaracas6923]

Muchas Gracias Guru Viking por la oportunidad de escuchar de la voz de Nyei Murez sus experiencias y recuerdos de la época cuando participaba de las actividades del Nagual Carlos Castaneda.

[@alexismiller8978]

Excellent interview, thank you.💛

[@rashomonseres]

Priceless! Thank you!

[@KarenBentley]

Thank you both

[@tomgietl2708]

This is brilliant. Thank You so much❤

[@gerik1896]

Thank you Nyei, I very much enjoyed your interview and learned so much from your path with heart! I especially liked what you had to say on discernment, at this time when there's so much fear and how we need to physically move and take care of our bodies. I hope you do another interview!

[@shelleyisom2639]

Hi, I saw you at many workshops. Where are you now? I moved to Taos, NM (Intent sent me here). If you are anywhere nearby, would love to get together with you or at least email ([e-mail]).

[@dontmindmejustwatching]

Nyei! I was attending cleargreen tensegrity workshops since 2004. Every workshop was such a gift. I remember Nyei scolded me on proper technique. Good times.

[@srmcfarling2315]

1972 Me, Steven YOGI McFarling ASHLAND OREGON LOVED Reading Carlos So Excited Like This Great Talk Thrilled Too 51 YEARS AGO WATCHING WOW !!*!!!

[@cacadores3955]

On the dates Carlos said that he was in the Sonora Desert, the library at UCLA has Carlos' receipt records for books he read there on those same days. Not only that, the subject matter for his writing can be seen in those same books he borrowed. The only evidence we have, is that he met a known Indian herbalist his lecturer put him in touch with. A man who was no shaman. The danger of pretending that an anthropological book summary is actually a real story with characters, is that people have no defence against its ending. Lies end in hell, and that's exactly what happened to him and his witchy inner circle. He said he would not die but enter infinity, so one walked to her sordid end in Death Valley.

[@shelleyisom2639]

Debunking Castaneda is such a waste of energy! Read him first, learn to "dream", tackle the 4 enemies ... then come back and say he's a fraud.

[@ThatRandomGuy146]

They don't care man. It's literally a cult. I don't like being lied to. I got 80 pages in, and something about it didn't seem right, it wasnt a strong feeling but it was there. Then I look up the author and immediately find the information about the fraud. I can understand the "positive" about popularizing or at least sparking interest in Indigenous ceremony and religion but don't tell me that this isn't a slap in the face. If he's a liar, then he is a liar, but people don't want to admit to being conned. I will finish it because I'm curious to read it in a frame of mind of a novel. But I might burn it after, idk maybe.

[@stefanyallouran2492]

@@shelleyisom2639 He died of liver cancer - no fire from within and transformation into awareness - his body failed, he died and decomposed - exactly the opposite of what Nyei and the other "Chocmools" said would happen...so what exactly was the point of it all for him? Fraud!

[@3yebeams]

Fascinating verifiable fact. Maybe he co-located (obviously only in his head). If you do a little digging on the internet you’ll see that Castaneda’s scribe AKA Caren reinvented herself (or was reinvented) around the 90s. Fascinating how A+ students can fall for this hypnagogic baloney. It seems the brighter you are in some cases the most naive and vulnerable too.

[@helenamaria710]

His 1st 4 books are amazing and powerful and have greatly influenced my life. It is hard to believe DJ did not exist but likely he didn't. He was a brilliant writer and put together incredible stories and characters. Where he got his information and concepts is beyond me. Likely it came from bits and pieces of his research and his own dreams and explorations and ....a few magic plants and chemicals? 🤔

[@myfriendthatdraws3347]

thank you, I promise I will practice more

[@carlton4610]

Exciting!

[@gilbertblanco4384]

Awesomeness

[@LoveJungle420]

I feel like this interview doesn't paint the full picture if you don't bring up Castaneda's latter years. The community of mostly women wearing all blue with bleached blonde bowl cut hair. The sexual misconduct allegations. The disappearing women after he died. It seemed to devolve into a cult at the end. If this is false or there's a good explanation for this, then this is the perfect person to exonerate his name. I was a huge fan of Castaneda and I'm pretty sure this was a big factor in leading me to my ayahuasca ceremony and my general foray into shamanism. Yet this unsettled controversy tarnished his name for me. It would be nice to get some clarity. She mentioned that she addressed this in another interview yet direct info was given as to which interview.

[@helenamaria710]

It was a cult. Amy Irving's book Sorcerer's Apprentice is her honest experience.

[@parisax]

Think her name is Amy Wallace

[@xfastnx]

I would ask the same question. Did you find out more?

[@joanne1dreams]

Nyei talks a little about CC's death and the disappearance of two of the women on a utube vid on NewRealities channel, an upload dated January 2015, part 2 of the two videos

[@LoveJungle420]

@@joanne1dreams Thanks!

[@WorldsBeyondYou]

This is Soo Precious!

[@oberonstar6278]

one warrior amazon lady . with such experiences that the collective would expand amazingly.a world teacher.

[@LauraSpicer]

Some of these comments are from fools. Start by appreciating her giving her time and attention and telling us what she knows. Before you get busy judging others, spend more time working on your own attitude? Not a good sorcerer’s attitude. So you are missing the point and the gold. Each of us has work to do on our own perception and subjective reality. And that is the work. Critical comments say more about you than anyone else. Nobody is making you watch this. If you dont like it, switch it off and go and gaze or recapitulate or build energy. Impeccability involves not wasting energy. Thanks Nyei. Much appreciate you sharing this. Very happy to learn what you have shared!

[@guntherriedel4119]

you are so right, we always tend to critizise, this is our big problem, and this, in fact, is a big aspect on which we have to start working. Thank you for your wise comment. I hope that viewers read it and think deeply about it. I myself have to struggle with critizising other people.

[@cacadores3955]

How can you talk about 'impeccability' when you follow an author who never met Don Juan and whose thesis plagiarised the books he read in the UCLA library on the days he pretended to be in the desert? We have his book receipt records.

[@erizz9906]

Perhaps 🤔… but ACCURACY is important hon. I loved the first four in the series 📚… but it lost the dynamism as it went on… like watching the fourth season of a dope Netflix series 🎥💯😂. I remember attending a Tensentegrity workshop in the late 80s, at a hotel on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, of all places! 🙄😑🙄 After touching very superficially on some weak ass, 7/11 Tai Chi knock off movements, they literally gave me and the others a “Shaman’s certificate” on the way out the freakin door 🤷🏾‍♂️💯🤣🤣🤣. I was like 🤔💭 - These mfs need to quit wit THIS!! 😬😂😂 Naw, Shamanism itself is indispensable for becoming One’s whole Self… and Totality is REAL SHIT!! Miguel Ruiz came later 📚⏰ and went straight to the TOP of New Age Wave - chillin’ wit Oprah and all. Carlos would’da probably made it on the show, if she were around back then 👌🏽🤷🏾‍♂️. So MUCH of what is touched on is soo amazing. If concocted as he went along, it somehow doesn’t diminish the striking Insights touched upon. Took a GANG of Internal work and Path work, one way or another for Carlos to arrive in the Space of executing these works. So my Spiritual hat 🎩 is off to him either way. But U caint knock the folk on here addressing certain accuracies and inaccuracies Ms Laura. I personally aint with that. Just ADD to what’s beneficial and Developmental for Us ALL. Undisputedly REAL CATS 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈 have taken the baton and advanced the conversation on this Journey - Arnold Mindell, Ram Dass, Terrence McKenna, Clarissa Pinkola, Malidoma Some’, etc. So let’s just keep it moving and share helpful notes in Authenticity 🙏🏾📚💜🌎💯😎

[@cheshirecat5571]

Why waste energy on a fiction that came strictly out of the imagination of one man, Carlos Castaneda? Why not use a system that is thousands of years old such as Buddhism instead? To be impeccable is to use your own discernment in the most beneficial way; not to fall for cults or fantasies.

[@LoveJungle420]

Who are you to tell us who we should appreciate or how we should start out our commenting? This woman was involved with a controversial figure for over a decade and this softball interview did nothing to address these issues. If I'm on a plane with Epstein and you never even bring it up during a long interview, that's a problem. This man is accused of being a rapist and a cult leader and ultimately leading a bunch of women to commit suicide. This person could actually help clear the air. I find it interesting that she wouldn't want to exonerate her beloved teacher again and again if he's innocent.

[@wanderingknight10]

Carlos introduced the world to different ways of processing the world but I think people lost the message by focusing too much on Carlos instead of the message

[@cacadores3955]

Yep. Because he lied. Liars have a different way of processing the world for sure.

[@wanderingknight10]

@@cacadores3955 They killed Jesus Christ ..someone like Carlos Castaneda doesn’t have a chance in hell with you self absorbed critics.

[@rashomonseres]

@@cacadores3955 I'm sensing a struggle with self-importance here. lol

[@cacadores3955]

@@rashomonseres That was the story Carlos told about when Don Juan told him to find his special spot on a terrace and he wasn't able to just follow his intuition. It's the typical sedentary library researcher's struggle to articulate physical practicalities.

[@laoyaotzu3071]

well in defence of this material, i had a lot of powerful experiences which were later articulated and understood once i came across carlos castanedas books. not the other way around. The things don Juan and carlos talk about need to be experienced. People can argue on the human facade that surrounded these two men however there is no doubt the teachers are powerful and profound. religious and spiritual people tend to dislike this material as it shatters and removes most of their routine, dogma and rules. it is the way of mystery, freedom and limitlessness ❤

[@angel4874]

I love Florinda's book. I spent a long time doing recapitulation. It works for me. Had the tensegrity DVD too, but couldn' get into it.

[@solartonytony5868]

1:23:00 ...at the end of part one, Nyei was getting to the point of when both Carlos nor her weren't writers, Don Juan told Carlos to write a book, and to forget about the field notes that they would be useless, and 'write a bokk as an act of sorcery' ...but she forgot it, and remembered the interviewer had some time concerns ...and on part II they never picked it up ...

[@dennismason3740]

In my seventy years I have met exactly 2 people who have actually read Carlos' books. When you have died (briefly) 2 or 3 times the grieving takes on a different mood. When Carlos split he called it the definitive journey because death is an illusion but don't push it. Death is my only honest friend. "How ya doin', Death?" - "You don't want to know...lighten up and I may share...". My last death literally had me at the DMV at three in the morning, alone and horrified. "I don't want to go back...but I'll go back. This is horrible!". "Death is the headlights in your rearview mirror...". Death chooses, not your ego. Lecture over.

[@denisefelton5207]

The nature of reality has varied ways to perceive it's presence coming from many directions of myriad different mediums. 🕊️

[@imdawolfman2698]

Thanks, certainly not a superficial interview. P.S. I learned stalking and dreaming, now they call me a Narcissistic Borderline Personality Disorder. X-D I'd be a sociopath too, except I have empathy for 'most all the 'normals'

[@gypsytarot333]

Hear ye hear ye

[@dennismason3740]

Theater of Infinity...my new band! I'll show myself out.

[@dennismason3740]

The Fish-Face Man scared the poop outta me until I found out about the fliers. My response was very much like Carlos'. When I read about the fliers I jumped on my bicycle and rode and confronted Mariamne Wulfsohn - "Why didn't you tell me about the fliers? There is no escape!". She laughed until she cried.

[@gypsytarot333]

Good story ty for sharing

[@dennismason3740]

@@gypsytarot333 - You're welcome. Don't investigate the "foreign installation" - it's horrible.

[@dennismason3740]

Don't @ me cuz I type. I am very exited to see Ms. Murez.

[@drhikita1967]

I, personally, have a deep gratitude for people like Ms Nyei, Reni, Mr Reid and all them people I learned the Tensegrity movements from... all along this years!... But I have to say... Not as a way or criticizing.. Just expressing a thought of mine.. This people and their CONSTANT "I'm a DIRECT STUDENT... I cannot but, just wonder.. WHAT THOSE THAT EVEN MEAN!!!

[@drhikita1967]

Not that I really care, indeed... I'm just stating a thought that comes up to me, whenever I hear this people, and perhaps other people in my position thinks the same way... Anyways... THANKS TO YOU ALL!!!... for helping me up to this HERE and NOW.

[@secular13]

Aerobic would suffice haha

[@drhikita1967]

@@secular13 GO FOR IT!!!

[@secular13]

@@drhikita1967 Hope u do understand that this tensegrity is completely made up thing Like all Castaneda books and IT is pure physical exercise based on karate moves etc. and Has no spiritual value.

[@drhikita1967]

@@secular13 I totally disagree with you. Of course, we're free to go wherever we go (Physically and Intellectually)... So... Have a good life!!... I'm trying to do the same.

[@ginomazzei1076]

Harry Hallers Magic Theatre in Herman Hesses “STEPPENWOLF”

[@jessicawolfe4986]

The Blue Scout?!, first and foremost thank you for doing this interview, Guru Viking, I subscribed and hit the bell! How may I get an email to Nyei Murez? Me, i am your biggest fan!

[@GuruViking]

I believe the best way to contact Nyei is through her website (linked in description).

[@MrRyanmcmahon]

@@GuruViking Nyei, Have you ever read the work o Armando Torres, Encounters with the Nagual?. To me , it is the most telling of the Castaneda's message.

[@paulbucklebuckle4921]

Patty Parton was I think the blue scout .

[@1michael1963]

can the physical body feel the effects of the energy body ie , if the energy body eats the effects are felt in the physical or if travelling in the energetic body and if bitten by an insect the physical feels it,

[@dennismason3740]

Say "power", like, 15 times and don't mess it up. Out loud. It's a quick way to dissempower those who we empower. Sometimes I play my little cane flute (13 dollars online) in Hollywood and I do a shakuhachi impersonation and people dig it. Pow-pow-pow, power at the pow wow...

[@bbcpyer]

Any plans for a second part??

[@GuruViking]

Here it is :-) kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5bVpYeJZ7GCeLs

[@fattyz1]

When I saw the magical passes I knew with direct knowing I’d been had. It’s nice not to be alone because misery loves company. The parts about tripping must be true if he has the best imagination on the planet lol.

[@samshuijzen]

I would love to hear a lot more from Nyei, this conversation was really eye- opening..thanks!

[@marmoset3]

There's teaching in this talk.

[@lafayettemoreira4423]

Juan Matus to Carlos, was the tonal, and Genaro the nagual, not?

[@andrewailey1996]

I think for it’s time maybe this metaphysical hippie philosophy was something profound… but I’d rather quote Modest Mouse “Lives” “Everyone's afraid of their own lives If you could be anything you want I bet you'd be disappointed, am I right? Am I right, am I right, am I right? Am I right, am I right, am I right? And it's our lives It's hard to remember, it's hard to remember We're alive for the first time It's hard to remember, it's hard to remember We're alive for the last time It's hard to remember, it's hard to remember To live before you die It's hard to remember, it's hard to remember That our lives are such a short time It's hard to remember, it's hard to remember When it takes such a long time It's hard to remember, it's hard to remember My mom's God is a woman and my mom she is a witch I like this My hell comes from inside, comes from inside myself Why fight this?”

[@peteraddison4371]

... The heartfelt, gutfelt, instinctivly intuited decision to fight the forces of your life, MAKES you, a warrior. And, it truly begins once the internal dialogue ceases, isness is enlivened, suspending judgement opens the heart path, becons freedom, regains sovereignty and so ... LOVE, BLESS EV'ER'Y ONE. LOVE, BLESS EV'ER'Y THING, IN EV'ER'Y WAY ... BE-CAUSE, LOVE is, in All-Ways, and Only EVER EQUAL to Humility and Gratitude for the Confidence and the Prowhesss, and that WILL is what Stabilises and Sustains LOVE ...

[@terryblack9710]

Anyone here familiar with the work of Marylyn Tuneshonde? Carlos' Nagual woman, dona Soledad? Will surely appreciate response to this!!!

[@dawnjohnson8739]

Wait. When was this interview done? She’s too young have been his scribe, etc. Isn’t she?

[@andrewchristie2713]

About 15/20 years ago a guy on sustained reaction, claimed he got an email from the death defier stating he’d made himself available for an energy exchange. Day later an insectoid like being merged with his physical body, drew energy into a thoracic sack then left his body.

[@anonymoushuman8344]

Castaneda can be read as a metaphysical novelist, trickster, and cartographer of his own dreamscape --- one through whom a body of wisdom came in spite of himself and his lies. I wonder what would have happened if he'd been honest from the beginning about the nature of his writing process and sources. The deceit must have had karmic consequences for him. Nyei Murez for governor of California.

[@Mr.Bojangles12]

You have to protect your sources, but I do agree his lying about going on all the excursions that the men went on, only to find out he stayed behind with the women folk is deceitful

[@HansenFT]

@@Mr.Bojangles12 not if his sources were books he read in the university library?

[@Mr.Bojangles12]

@@HansenFT no, he went down and had contact with a group of 1st nation people

[@decimatedbody4122]

@@Mr.Bojangles12 yes don juan's teachings are real. Don juan isn't realalthough . Most likely an amalgamation of all of the indians teachings and stories onto don juan the fictional character.

[@The44484448]

Saw Carlos at Culver City H.S. & U.C.L.A. - even if a sham rather than a Shaman, the practices work.

[@MrVladanbajic]

you guy should meet Nagual Luhan Matus (his book '' stalking parallel perception''

[@paulbail1451]

Book by Amy Wallace - "Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda" - expose of his cultist bs

[@gilbertblanco4384]

How do we meet?

[@tonhettema1005]

Interesting to observe how most commentators defend their retreat from the world of magic that they were drawn into by absorbing CC's books, and don't understand or see that it has been the incorporation of the criticism of persons from the 'muggle-mindset' that has driven them back into their previous paradigm of mediocrity..

[@DennisRoberts-sv4hi]

How old was Carlos when he died.

[@marvymarier8988]

Carlos "went native". Thank God he did .

[@dennismason3740]

I get a 1920s vibe on Julian. Why didn't he go into silent films in L.A.? I'd watch that.

[@dennismason3740]

Ms. Murez - let's go hiking in Griffith Park. Chances of E.T. contact are nuts these days, no guarantees but if your mind and heart (that's the bit that folk miss) are open chances of contact are very good. Just a thought. Or we can laugh about the shaman's (YT doesn't allow the "sorc****" word) world. In the late eighties I was going to A.A. dances at the dance studio in Santa Monica and I had no idea the Tensegrity class was going on. The Magical Passes video came out years later with your unblinking eyes and pageboy cut. "Dang, that girl is cut!" I thought in 1999. I have forgotten most of the passes except for that first dozen on video. I'm sure my body remembers because sometimes it (body) will just start doing a pass that I had forgot. Be well.

[@andreebesseau6995]

Therebis an alternate reality,😊

[@daviddupree1155]

Hello Nyei

[@paulbail1451]

Five of Castenadas' main apprentices disappeared at the same time. One's bones were found in Death Valley - kzbin.info/www/bejne/amjMq3mZqaqEsKssi=GLct7d5DwmVrEwoB

[@dennismason3740]

Victimhood is huge in the culture (2023). John Michael Abelar says "assume responsibility" - this feels like the Hayes code all over again.

[@dr.davidmiller6682]

I just couldn’t finish listening to this woman. It was the most frustrating interview. She wandered all over the place, and didn’t have congruency or tangible threads, at least I didn’t hear any! Her speech was peppered with you know, and then you know what I mean and other filler, junk words. I’ve been a big Castaneda fan since the 70s, but this didn’t enhance my relationship with that material in any way.

[@Mike65809]

Carlos was as fake as a 3 dollar bill. Sorry I ever believed his CAP. Jesus delivered me from all of it. I thank God.

[@chrisrodgers5573]

so has the one time chacmool detached herself from Cleargreen? Is the party over so to speak ?

[@krasihristov1066]

the party was over long time ago.Its just that a lot of people won''t admit it and just kept rollin with the story

[@angelicasmith9357]

...shift your energy / "attention" towards the lessons.... refuse to allow your energy or attention to get caught in the web of gossip, drama.

[@shelleyisom2639]

This was not a party that ended. Read "The Universal Spiderweb" by Armando Torres.

[@stefanyallouran2492]

@@angelicasmith9357 There are no lessons to be learned here. The Magical Passes didn't help Carlos in the end, why would they help anyone else? Here, there is only sales promotion.

[@kevincoatsworth50]

@@stefanyallouran2492 “didn’t help Carlos in the end”? Because he died?

[@dennismason3740]

So, the Westwood Compound...I would've been the dishwasher, window-cleaner, sweeper...

[@TheCybird]

mellow yellow song meaning

[@RMunoz-te7jc]

The meditation at 28:00 sounds like it's missing something and the parable gait that accompanied the spirit also seems to be devoid. Please get the meditation again,it also seems the words are out of order. The gait, is the stalk you talk about. It's also in the book of gaits

[@lunar-ix9vu]

Isn’t she young to have been his scribe?

[@edwinppw61]

Where is the material about the death of Carlos Castaneda? Where on the Internet?

[@LoveJungle420]

Yes I would like to know too.

[@gunterappoldt3037]

There is, e.g., an very informative documentation by the BBC, "Documental Carlos Castaneda", also available on KZbin.

[@dbp9675]

the blue scout

[@dbp9675]

@Hello World! interesting, the books changed my life. especially the art of dreaming when it was released around 1993, read it twice, changed my life comepletely

[@louisfifteen]

DonJuan in fact said, "pay me for my time with your time", not your attention.

[@cryptosquirrel5667]

I really enjoyed the interviewer's sessions with Bruce Frantzis, but this one left me cold! He failed to ask the hard questions about her pov regarding the whole fraud issue. Too credulous.

[@ThunderWizard]

I was a fan of castaneda for years. Loved his books. I studied them intensely. The information is brilliant. I am rather confused as to why she doesn't address the fact he was discovered to be a complete fraud and the resulting deaths of his "witches" as a result of his abuse and lies.

[@imdawolfman2698]

@ThunderWizard , Simply, because you live in a divergent Universe where people, with their SUPREME self-importance, obsess over such absurd petty details as you mention. In a Warriors world words and notions just aren't so relevant; ones' perception and deeds are primary to a womb/man seeking knowledge and self-control. Don Carlos IS The Nagual. You are a pion.

[@drmodestoesq]

*Peon. @@imdawolfman2698

[@concretejungle9608]

An interesting listen if you can tolerate the constant Uhmm’s and You know’s

[@JP092130]

Good luck. You are point to a generational verbal space holder, like the our "umh". Cheers.

[@DanielTribeofDAN]

#KnowItAll is not so bad - at least you're not # TwoButtocks ~

[@thomaswitzgall1401]

.... Carlito was a good friend of mine ... he never talked about women ,,, and he never wrote about them ..... who the hell is Nyei Murez ... lets dream together ... or just answer ... 💕 ...

[@oldnatty61]

Can't hang around for 21/2 hours.

[@devonseamoor]

To repeatedly compliment a student for 3 years is a weird thing to me. It may have been his role play, making sure his "girls would gladly sit on daddy's knee". Ahem. The fact that his apprentices were told to break with family ties, and, later, disappeared, maybe due to suicide, is a sure sign of a sick energy-connection, so demanding, that the women who "lost" their "master" had no individual foundation anymore to stand on, continuing their lives with selfworth. 👋🧙‍♀️

[@k.arlanebel6732]

The primary problem for those that support Castaneda as genuine is that they cannot produce a single instance of anyone achieving what he taught as the goal. These people live in a context of faith that what they experience themselves undeniably points to the goal that can only have faith in. We know that Castaneda himself did not achieve it. Does this prove that his teaching is not valid? No, it only proves that even if it is valid, he didn't conclusively validate it with his own life. And his supporters cannot produce anyone who has done this except in a context of faith. Most humans have a very difficult time distinguishing between reality and illusion, truth and deception, beyond a relatively shallow level. And once you venture into deeper levels the "Truth" does not come all at once and demonstrate itself. You enter a process of learning and discovery, and you have to make a faith choice about how to assess your own experiences. No one in this process can demonstrate to anyone else the undeniable reality of the goal that has not been actually reached. So people end up in arguments that cannot be conclusively resolved because no one can demonstrate the reality or illusion of the goal. It just becomes futile arguments of personal preference of belief. Unfortunately, that is where human beings actually are.

[@dennismason3740]

Duck flutes on Nyei's wall! Made by real ducks! Seriously many of the questions from the decades were answered by Joan Wulfsohn, who hung out with Carlos and apparently was "rejected" by the Witches. Her daughter instructed me in magical passes in the late 90s. In 1972 I practiced the gait of power for the first time and I thought "yeah...this shite is real". Carlitos! The gait of power is a way to run in complete darkness without stumbling. I followed Carlos' description to the letter and since 72 I can run in the dark without stumbling.

[@user-qv9ph9gb7z]

how do you do that? how is that gait of power done?

[@dennismason3740]

@@user-qv9ph9gb7z - the gait of power is simplicity itself, I forget which book it's described in, you can type "castaneda gait of power" in the searchfield, or not. The main thing is: if you don't believe you can run in the dark without stumbling, don't. I promise it will feel as idiotic as it sounds. Curl the fingers of both hands slightly (relax!) and let them dangle - shake out your anxiety and kind of bend slightly forward, spine straight - now lift your knees almost into your chest with every step. This is the crucial bit and it looks, to an observer, absurd. Starting off slow step in the direction you want to go, lifting your knee with each step and take tiny, incremental steps - short and high. Don't go faster than the mechanics of the gait of power allow. For some reason this knee-raising short-stepping posture allows the body to avoid holes in the ground. I may be mis-remembering this part but I think that the index finger of each hand is pointed toward the ground, this is why I suggest a nice Duck Duck Go search. Short, high steps, relax, curl your fingers a bit, speed not crucial. O.k. I looked it up - first referenced in Journey to Ixtlan - www.essencediaries.com/post/the-gait-of-power-revealing-the-essence. It works. Practice in a safe place, like a grassy field, if the notion terrifies you, before night.

[@lafayettemoreira4423]

The aztecs gave the name, avenue of the dead, to Teotihuacans main road, they themselves (aztecs) already found deserted and not habitable.

[@janscott602]

Casteneda attracted a host of fellow grifters, especially white women. Within a few years of Journey To Ixtlan we were hearing about “personal power” and other Casteneda buzzwords on TV. This lady spews word salad like the worst of them. Grifters galore.

[@jonathannadeau6218]

Prepare to see the comments section of this video turn ugly.

[@CharlieMorley]

Why so?

[@anthonygutierrez1895]

Shes an eye sore

[@timdunk7278]

@@anthonygutierrez1895 Just imagine for a moment... that a name, such as Anthony Gutierrez, might carry into eternity the legacy of a crass statement, such "she's an eye sore".

[@anthonygutierrez1895]

@@timdunk7278 double ouch

[@angelicasmith9357]

...prepare instead to focus on what she is imparting....

[@bernadettecarmenzoleta2643]

Paulo Coelho

[@DiamondGuitarist]

The comments from the petty tyrants 🤪😉🤣👌

[@makucevich]

Good one.

[@chrisstanley2538]

​@makucevich right on, man, used that alright ,called that person out as well know it works, if it works for both parties .. yes what works.... thanks

[@bodhidharma9363]

Castaneda and L Ron Hubbard had a lot in common, both realized that there is no money in science fiction, it's much better to just start a religion. But Castaneda did a much better job in repackaging Alan Watts and attributing it to some fictional shaman, than Hubbard did in repackaging Freud.

[@pathwalker3146]

Not true. Different from Alan watts in many ways

[@mitakon21]

Dream on dunce..."who you are shouts so loud I cannot hear what you say"

[@charlesbeardsmug1553]

Exactly

[@laoyaotzu3071]

spoken like a true normy. Its all real you just havnt experienced these things yet.

[@spartan.falbion2761]

The experiences are real...but his knowledge was obtained in a library. Scammer or not, his fantasies are transformative

[@devonseamoor]

This woman is rather vague, and seems to juggle a lot in her mind, with what she should say or not. The monotony and holding her words inside her mouth, her way of speaking seems to suggest that she's not 100% present, almost blocked in her emotional and female energy.

[@JimObsolete]

Too many uh and you knows ...not very articulate....hard to listen to....and i am a big castaneda fan

[@LoveJungle420]

I feel like this is an older male issue. I've only seen a few men commenting this which makes me think it's some kind of generational issue.

[@savad.7898]

​@Paul Fears No, those are facts. I listen to audiobooks all the time for example but if someone would sound like this, I couldn't listen to it so he is right. This is two and a half hours and it's impossible to listen.

[@dennismason3740]

There's a path? Ohhh shite...I was homeless for 7 years, eating out of bins and cleaning the entire park. Funny how that works. I was homeless when I met George Harrison. Nyah nyah nyah nyah, nya.